Director selection is linked with contradictory board roles which call for the need of multiple approaches. In cooperatives, which are member- and user-driven rather than profit-driven, this approach is essential. The aim of this study is to analyze director selection in agricultural...

Director selection is linked with contradictory board roles which call for the need of multiple approaches. In cooperatives, which are member- and user-driven rather than profit-driven, this approach is essential. The aim of this study is to analyze director selection in agricultural...

Emerging interest in psychological ownership in the domain of marketing calls for better understanding of situations wherein the customers are also the owners of the company. Accordingly, psychological ownership has been proposed to capture the intimate link between customer-owners and the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to literature on corporate social responsibility by comparing CSR reporting between co‐operative organizations and listed companies. The authors aim to illustrate whether the different values and principles of co‐operatives and public...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of regional responsibility and to provide a deeper understanding of customer‐owned co‐operatives and their social embeddedness. Design/methodology/approach – First, extant conceptions of corporate social responsibility are...